The medical guide

the intestines, liver, &c. &c., * by medicine, diet, exercise, &c.; but the numerous additions I had made to the first part would not admit of it, in consequence of being confined to a certain number of pages. I have, however, given what may be termed the essence of the work, and I have only referred to those chapters which would not admit of being condensed. For the causes, treatment, &c. of the diseases which I could not with propriety introduce into a work of this kind, I have referred my readers to my late treatise on the medicinal properties of the Buchu Leaves; and for the complaints peculiar to the female sex, to the supplement to the thirty-third Number of the Gazette of Health. t

The Medical Guide, in its present improved state, will, I flatter myself, be found to contain more practical information than any other system of medicine which has been published in this country. It has been nearly rewritten, and the whole is the result of close study and observation, during an extensive private and hospital practice for a period of thirty-five years.

The first edition of this work met with the particular approbation of the late venerable and learned Dr. Richard Watson, Lord Bishop of Llandaff, and Sir Christopher Pegge of Oxford, since which it has gone through fourteen editions. It is recommended by the most eminent physicians of this country; and has been translated into all the languages of Europe by medical professors of the most celebrated universities, and reprinted in America; and at this time is in greater demand in the United Kingdom than any other medical

* A Practical Treatise on the means of regulating the stomach and bowels, by medicine, diet, exercise, &c. &c., in cases of habitual and other varieties of constipation; of simply irritative and structural affections of the lungs, stomach, liver, rectum, &c. of ruptures, introsusception, colic, &c. during pregnancy; of correcting the gouty, rheumatic, nervous, scrofulous, erysipelatous, leucophlegmatic, or verminous and melancholic temperament, and of fortifying the system against the climacteric disease, or breaking up of the constitution, second edition.

+ This work may be obtained at the Medical Hall, 170, Piccadilly.

publication; a circumstance which I notice with gratitude and pride.

My principal intention being to enable the charitable and humane to administer comfort and relief to the objects which poverty and disease recommend to their compassion, I beg to state, that it will at all times afford me great pleasure to give any further information or explanation in my power to assist them in the discharge of that "work of labour and love" which is one of the most delightful and important duties of CHRISTIANITY. The poor are my best patients, frequently observed that good and able physician, Boerhaave, because GOD is their paymaster. For the purpose of promoting the object of this work, I instituted nearly twelve years since a monthly publication under the title of the Gazette of Health, or Medical dietetic anti-empirical and general philosophical Journal, at the low price of one shilling. This work, a number of which is published on the first of every month, contains all the new discoveries made in different parts of the known world in either of the departments of medicine that are likely in any respect to prove beneficial to the public. The composition of advertised remedies or nostrums is given, and the dishonest practice of regular and irregular quacks, and other pretenders, fully exposed. The substance of all new works on medicine, diet, and domestic economy is also given, so as to enable the reader to form an opinion of their merits. This periodical work has experienced a most extensive circulation, and is at this time supported by the most eminent physicians and chemists in Europe and America. The back numbers have been several times reprinted for new subscribers. The object of the Editors of the Monthly Gazette of Health being to give the earliest intelligence of any new discovery that is likely to prove beneficial to the public, either in preventing or curing disease, or in promoting domestic comfort or economy, the Proprietors are not desirous to derive any profit from the back numbers. New subscribers may, therefore,

obtain the volumes that have been published (twelve, lately reprinted) at the original cost, viz. that of paper and printing, at the Medical Hall, 170, Piccadilly. These volumes (with copious indices) not only form a complete modern medical library, but contain the opinions of the most eminent practitioners relative to diet, discoveries in agriculture, the composition of some hundreds of quack medicines, the substance of all the new medical dietetic or philosophical works, original communications, &c. &c.

PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.

Since the second part of this work was printed, the infusion of an ash-coloured ground lichen (not the Lichen Islandicus), has been highly extolled as a remedy for pulmonary consumption by Dr. Hereford, a respectable physician of Boston in North America, who has published some cases of general emaciation, attended with symptoms of diseased lungs, in which it proved successful. This infusion is made by steeping two ounces of the lichen in a pint and a half of boiling water for six or eight hours. Doctor Hereford recommends a wine-glassful to be taken four or five times. a day.

RINGWORM, &c.

Castor oil has also been highly extolled as an infallible topical remedy for ringworm. It is directed to be rubbed over the part affected every night and morning. The citrine ointment made with castor oil, in lieu of olive oil, has been found to succeed in cases of scald head, leprous affections, and chilblains, which had resisted the usual remedies. An account of these remedies, with directions for their use, is given in the 145th number of the Gazette of Health, published on the 1st of January 1828.

The cost price is about sixpence a number, or six shillings a volume at this price they can only be procured at the Medical Hall, 170, Piccadilly.